To understand why, imagine yourself as a Republican working at a
big Silicon Valley tech company.

You agree with Damore that some average differences between men
and women probably explain some of why such a high proportion of
computer programmers are male. You, however, in no way consider
yourself sexist.

What Damore’s termination tells you is that many in your field
consider people with your beliefs to be unfit to work with. They
hold opinions of you similar to those of former senior Google
employee Yonatan Zunger, who wrote about Damore,
saying:

“Do you understand that at this point, I could not in good
conscience assign anyone to work with you? I certainly couldn’t
assign any women to deal with this, a good number of the people
you might have to work with may simply punch you
in the face, and even if there were a group of like-minded
individuals I could put you with, nobody would be able to
collaborate with them.” (Emphasis mine.)

If you are on the right, you probably find it hard to imagine
that any reasonably person could read Damore’s memo and think
that it reveals the author to be sexist, punchable, or a danger
to women’s careers. It appears to you that Damore was
excommunicated for questioning the progressive diversity
narrative in a most respectful manner.

The right calls the kind of people who went after Damore by the
derogative term “Social Justice Warriors” (SJWs). SJWs hold
progressive views on diversity and identify politics and,
supposedly, find virtue in harming those with heretical beliefs.

Many on the right fear SJWs. The website Breitbart, highly influential among
conservatives and the Trump administration, interviewed an
anonymous Googler who said in part:

“Several managers have openly admitted to keeping blacklists of
the employees in question, and preventing them from seeking work
at other companies. There have been numerous cases in which
social justice activists coordinated attempts to sabotage other
employees’ performance reviews for expressing a different
opinion. These have been raised to the Senior VP level, with no
action taken whatsoever…There have been a number of massive witch
hunts where hundreds of SJWs mobilize across the corporate
intranet to punish somebody who defied the Narrative…I always
fear for my job and operate with the expectation that I will be
purged unless something changes…”

Many Business Insider readers won’t trust an anonymous Breitbart
interview, but for what’s relevant to this article, please do
trust that this Googler’s views accurately reflects how many on
the right think about SJWs.

Vox Day, a leader of the alt-right, wrote a book
called “SJWs Always Lie” with the
explicit goal to “show you how SJWs operate, teach you how to see
through their words, explain how to correctly anticipate their
actions, and give you the weapons you need to successfully thwart
their inevitable attempts to disqualify you, discredit you, and
destroy your reputation.”

Damore’s firing is probably going to cause many Silicon Valley
Republicans to prepare themselves by reading this book.

The key difference in tactics between the alt-right and
traditional right is that the alt-right doesn’t place much value
on playing fair, and they mock conservatives’ seeming desire to
lose honorably. On a recent Periscope video Vox said that his
supporters in tech companies (which he claims are numerous)
should “be the second or third most enthusiastic SJW in your
group.”

He considers SWJs to be the enemy that’s beyond reason.
When a commentator suggested that publically supporting SJW views
might give them legitimacy, Vox said “F--- legitimacy. You are
thinking like a conservative…”

It will be poisonous if the tech right feels compelled to not
only hide their beliefs but also to actively pretend to
believe in progressive diversity values. This pretending will
embitter them, probably pushing many to the more radical
alt-right.

It will prevent the left and right from getting meaningful
feedback on their belief. Plus, if progressives never talked with
people on the right, they wouldn’t get to learn that most of us
do not fit their stereotypes of being sexist monsters.

When SJWs in Silicon Valley realize that their ideological
enemies are hiding, they might actively search them out. They
might become suspicious of the guy who was the first to stop
clapping when a new diversity initiative was announced. Even
worse, SWJs in human resources might become reluctant to hire
those with characteristics correlated with conservatism, such as
past military service.

In “SJWs Always Lie,” Vox Day
writes, “If you have any SJWs working under you, fire them…Above
all, you must understand that the normal rules of live and let
live are no long in effect.”

Business works best if different political tribes don’t seek to
crush others when they have a temporary upper-hand. If, however,
the right perceived that SJWs are after them, it’s understandable
(if regrettable) that they will treat SJWs likewise when they
have the power.

Although the left greatly outnumbers the right in tech, if the
right uses stealth tactics and the left doesn’t, the right might
eventually gain an advantage in the career-destroying game
because they will more easily locate high-value targets.

The alt-right’s favorite insult is “Cuckservative,” title of
another Vox Day book.

A Cuckservative is a conservative who backs policies that will in
the long run destroy conservatism such as, supposedly, supporting
immigration of people whom will eventually become citizens who
vote Democratic.

Lots of Republicans (me included) would have supported Google
against government regulations and antitrust action and we were
in no way bothered by Google's massive cultural power because
this was the judgement of the free market.

We considered Google a great American success story. But this
firing probably shows that many Googlers find us beneath
contempt. Damore’s ouster has kind of turned us into
Cuckservatives.

As a free market Republican, I dislike most of the alt-right
policy views. But my kind are not inclined to fight an
underhanded company by company dirty political war, while the
alt-right is. If SJWs force the tech right into these fights,
they will push them into the eager arms of the alt-right.

James Miller debated Vox Day on the issue of Free Trade.
Vox published a transcript of this debate.